Improvement in gloves



Gioves.

Patented May 14,1872.

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IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,781, dated May 14, 1872.

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This glove has the thumb formed in one piece, with the palm portion of the body or the part from which the thumb portion immediately projects.

In Fig. 1 the thumb portion is shown at T, as extended from the body B, in such manner that the line of fold c d of such thumb portion shall range essentially with the middle of the lower edge h g of i of the pattern.

There is a slit or cut, a, made into the body, as shown, to complete the thumb-piece, which on making the glove is to be folded along its middle--viz.,on the line 0 dand the edges are to be stitched together. The edge b, from the base of the thumb-part T, is to be secured to the edge 7c, constituting the upper part of the slit a. The index-finger portion 0, as well as the fifth or little-finger portion D, and the parts E F of the two intermediate fingers, are in one piece with the palm and thumb portions, all being arranged and formed as shown in Fig. 1. Each of the parts 0 D is folded on itself to complete the fore and little finger.

fourth fingers are completed by the pieces shown in Figs. 2 and 3, or, if preferable, by a single piece, when one can be used. By my construction of the glove I gain the advantage of having the thumb and palm portions in one piece, without the necessity of slitting the part B from the middle of its base upward, and introducing into the slot and sewing it to its edges a gore piece, all as shown in the United States patent N 0. 114,091; By my construction I not only avoid the gore piece and thereby clieapen the glove,but avoid all the disadvantages of the gore and its seams, and particularly the danger of the latter bein g ripped o'r torn apart under the great strain to-which they are liable during the process of pulling the glove upon the hand of a person.

I do not claim a glove made as described and claimed in the said patent, nor do I claim a glove made as shown in patent No. 4,278 of reissues of United States patents; nor one made as shown and described in British patent No.10,340 of 1844; nor as shown in the patent of Ezra and Adeline A. Avery, dated April 25, 1871.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, a glove composed of two intermediate finger and back parts, (Figs. 2 and 3,) and the body and finger Witnesses:

BENJ. ATKINSON, OUR'rrs S. CUMMINGS. 

